Endocrine regulation of skin blanching in red porgy, Pagrus pagrus

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 241-248

  Fanouraki, Eleftheria ^a   Laitinen, Jarmo T ^b   Divanach, Pascal ^c   Pavlidis, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GLUCOSE; HORMONE; PERCIFORM; SERUM; SKIN;

PAGRUS PAGRUS;

EID: 34548814148     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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